Combined match-safe and cigar-cutter.



J. GASSIE & J. D. MARTIN.

COMBINED MATCH SAFE AND CIGAR CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27, 1908.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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JOHN CASSIE AND JOSEPH D. MARTIN, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED MATCH-SAFE AND CIGAR-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

Application filed March 27, 1908. Serial No. 423,627.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN CAssIE and J OSEPH D. MARTIN, subjects of the King of Great Britain, residing at Lawrence, in the county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Match-Safe and Cigar-Cutter; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to a new and useful improvement in a combined match safe and cigar cutter.

The object of our invention is to provide a neatly constructed pocket match safe, so arranged that the same may be used in clipping the end of a cigar, the instrumentalities being so arranged that as the cutter knives are operated to clip the cigar the match holding receptacle is automatically ejected to expose the matches.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown in Figure 1 a central sectional view of a match box embodying our invention. Fig. 2 shows a transverse sectional view, and

3 a top View.

n carrylng out the object of our invention we use a housing at having the top 2 which has a central perforation as shown at 3. Within this box or receptacle is held a partition 1 dividing the housing or receptacle into the upper compartment 4 and the lower compartment 5.

Held within the lower compartment 5 is a drawer 6, forming a match receiving receptacle, this drawer being provided with the operating tab 7.

Transversely positioned within the upper compartment 4 are the shafts 10 and 11 each carrying a fiat cutting knife 13 there being two such knives as clearly disclosed in Fig. 1. Each knife is provided with an ear 14 holding a spring 16, the spring at its upper end belng secured to an ear 15 fixed to the under surface of the to 2. By means of these springs 16 the knives are yieldingly held in an upwardly inclined position so that the cutting edges of these knives are held below and proximal to the opening 3 through which the cigar tip is introduced when the same is to be clipped. In pressing the cigar downward the knife edges are carried toward one another in which operation the tip of the cigar is removed. The tips being collected within this upper compartment 4.

The knife 13 is provided with the two downwardly extending ejector arms 20 which extend into the drawer 6 their pendent ends working against the inner face of the drawer as disclosed in Fig. 1. Now, as the knife 13 is carried downward by the cigar in clipping the same the ejector arms 20 are swept outward and partially eject the drawer 6 from within the compartment, exposing the match ends. If it is desired to operate the drawer to remove a match without actuating the knife 13, the operator grasps the tab by means of which the drawer may be carried in or out of its housing.

The device is neat and simple of construction, and having thus described our said invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by U. S. Letters Patent is 1. A match box having in combination, a

housing divided into an upper and lower compartment, a knife pivotally held within said uppercompartment, a drawer slidably held within said lower compartment and an ejector arm secured to said knife and extending into said drawer as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A match box having in combination, a housing divided into an upper and lower compartment, a drawer slidably heldwithin said lower compartment, an opening being within said match box communicating with said upper compartment, two knives pivoted within said upper compartment, springs to yieldingly hold the cutting edges of said knives proximal to said opening, and an ejector arm secured to one of said knives and extending into said drawer all arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A device of the class described comprising a case including an upper and a lower compartment, a drawer slidably mounted in one of the compartments, a knife movably mounted in the other compartment, a wall of said other compartment having an opening across which the knife is arranged to arranged to open the drawer when the cuttravel in its movement, and drawer-opening ting knife is moved. A means carried by the knife and disposed to In testimony whereof, We aflix our signanillovfintll fle drawerd into opendposition when tures in presence of two Witnesses.

5 t e i eis move across sai o ening.

4. A device of the class des dribed com- ARTIN prising a casing, a movable cigar-cutting knife in the casing, a drawer also in the Witnesses: casing and movable to project therefrom, EDWARD ARNOLD,

10 and drawer-opening means constructed and LEMANGE DE ROCHE. 

